Zera Shimshon - Parashat Behaalotecha - Rabbi Alon Anava

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I'm going to start learning at least once a week from the book that is called Zera Shimshon. Very few people are acquainted with the book or the rabbi. The rabbi who wrote it is Rabbi Shimshon Chaim Nachmani. Uh unfortunately, the gems most people don't know. Mainstream they learn certain uh teachings and then there are gems, literally gems out there that most people don't know. That if you mention their names, never heard. So, the Zera Shimshon was a very famous rabbi. He's a Kabbalist that most of his life grew around the area of Italy. He was born in 1706 and died in 1779. So, that's about 4 250 years ago. Died if it's a 1779, that's 240 years ago. And but lived in the time of the Ramchal. He was actually very close to the Ramchal, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. He was actually the Zera Shimshon is the student of Rabbi David Pinchi, who was the father-in-law of the Ramchal. So, that's the rebbe of Rabbi Shimshon Chaim Nachmani. So, he has a series of books called Zera Shimshon. A lot of them are on the parashah. A lot of them are on the Megillot. Uh some of them are That's one thing that I definitely want to teach and learn about Shir Hashirim and Pirkei Avot. So, he has a lot of books. And he said one of the reasons why I want to teach it and also learn it as he gave a certain blessing when he died. Uh he he fell on Tisha B'Av. And a month later exactly he died.

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